Children's magazines, any ideas?

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My daughter is 8 and wants to renew her subscription to the RSPB magazine - but only for the freebies, she doesn't have the remotest interest in birds. Does anyone know of any good magazines for her age group, maybe about books, or art, or drama? Does the Puffin Club still exist? Not an online mag, something real that drops through the door every so often and means she gets some post to herself.

Renew the RSPB subscription! Its not just about birds, but the countryside and all wildlife. The freebies are cool - and some of the prizes are excellent too!

(Can you guess who I work for?!!!!)

Puffin Club I don't know if it's quite what you're looking for.

I'm sure there are children's art magazines on the shelves in news agents.

Off subject, I know, but...
When I was five I won a Puffin Club competition to paint/ draw my Mum and Dad. The prize was a large box of coloured pencils (You know- those posh Caran D'Ache ones that come in about 50 different colours ). I think my parents were told by the Puffin club that the winning paintings had been given to a couple of child psychologists at Nottingham University, and when I coincidentally went there at 18 I was able to meet up with one of them and see my painting. Strangely, I was able to pick it out of a selection they had, although I remember virtually nothing from that period of my life!

How sad, it would appear that the Puffin Club is now school- based and SELLS books... I still have some old copies of "This little Puffin" knocking about somewhere at my Mum's house.

I remember Puffin Club used to have yearly events at Earls Court, I remember getting Roahld Dahl and Quentin Blakes autograph, and seeing this big Puffin walking around everywhere. Completely forgotten til this thread started.

My stepdaughter loves Art Attack magazine which is full of craft and art projects to do. She is often happily messing about with paints etc on the kitchen table for hours. No boys, no snogging, no crop tops, just things to do.

Oooh - I still have my gold-coloured Puffin club badge!!

Thanks everyone - seems I unleashed a minor ripple of nostalgia for the Puffin Club! I too have some Puffin Club annuals somewhere... We're trying the Art Attack magazine, seems to be a hit so far.

Glad to have been of assistance. Only drawback is you are not allowed to throw away any jars, tins etc and have to root around in stationers for odd items.

No advice - just wanted to join in the nostalgia with the Puffin Club! I used to get 'The Egg', the younger version and my sister got the older magazine.

SueW, watch out or you'll be seeing yourself on Skipwatch. It's a filler on Discovery Home and Leisure and is hilarious. A CCTV camera watches over a skip and the 2 minute programme shows what some of the people get up to, including a drunken couple playing magic carpet on an old mattress and two lads having a polystyrene fight not to mention all the shall I/shan't I people who don't know if they dare take the thing that they really want.

Yes, I'm sad enough to watch the really low budget DIY and hobby programmes on that channel The useless american woman who has to sit down on the chez longue at the end of each programme to reflect on her day's work is my absolute favourite, full of double-entendres, hopeless at DIY but hilariously funny

Before we moved I kept a big box whereI would put in empty packets, silver foil, pie cases, toilet paper tubes etc that all had good model making potential. My ds and I would have great fun making dinosaurs out of egg boxes and robots out of tissue boxes. When we moved I put what I had in a bag and took it to ds's pre-school. Now we are getting settled in our new place it is something I'm going to start up again. Perfect raining weather activity.

SueW, I'm not the only one who watches those programmes then.